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Walkers news: Sept. 1 -- St. Louis 11, Green Bay 0
Record: 76-55, 2nd, 3.5 GB Springfield
Ming Xiang shut out Green Bay on five hits -- while St. Louis hit four home runs -- as the River Walkers won in a rout 11-0 at PNC Park.
The win gave St. Louis victories in two of three games.
Xiang (12-5) dominated allowing five singles and one double over the nine innings.
He struck out seven and did not issue a walk.
The shutout was Xiang's first of the season and second in the MBL.
Nick Shaw hit the first of the St. Louis homers in the top of the second, a solo shot off Mallards starter Angel Hurtado to make it 1-0.
An inning later, Bob Saavedra belted a two-run homer off Hurtado.
When Coke hit the first of his two homers in the fifth -- a two-run shot off Hurtado -- it was 5-0.
The Walkers didn't need a homer to bust the game open in the seventh, when they scored four runs.
Mark Waterson drove in three of the runs with a bases-loaded double off Ernie Ruiz.
Coke drove in the first run of a two-run ninth with a homer off Joe Goodman.
Wenman plated the game's final run with a sac fly.
It scored Nick Shaw who had singled and moved to third when Waterson doubled.
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